Thursday, September 15, 2011

Shades Of Grey.

I call myself an Indian out there,
but of who's history I am highly unaware,
I am a patriot when it comes to the World Cup,
but otherwise I just seem to have given up.
Building a future on a present unstable,
and building it, by the way, from money below
the table.
But just what have I done to make my nation
proud?
I wish patriotism was just about shouting out
loud,
about marching with flags and flogging the
roads,
about walking slut walks and holding banner-ed
boards,
I am the one who thinks I' ll wipe my bribes of
the past,
by sitting in protests and keeping a fast.
Of what I am standing against, am I myself
pure?
I might promise to be clean but am I myself
sure?
Have I got my license in the way that is right?
Have I compromised to corruption or put up a
fight?
I am calling myself far sighted, but am I not
being blind,
trying to attack something publically while its
alive in my mind?
Am I not being fake, being a hypocrite?
Being guilty of it myself and calling the politician
a brat?
Don' t think of me as hopeless, there might come
a day,
hen I' ll accept I am not black or white but a
shade of grey.